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Seventh International Teletraffic Congress in
Stockholm, June 1973
KNUT MARTIN OLSSON. CENTRAL ADMINISTRATION OF SWEDISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS
MAGNUS ANDERBERG & GUNNAR LIND. TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON
STOCKHOLM
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The opening session of ITC 7 in the nen
parliament building in .Stockholm
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The Seventh International Teletraffic Congress, ITC 7, was held in Stockholm
in the new parliament building on June 13—20, 1973, at the invitation of the
Swedish Telecommunications Administration, Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson,
Standard Radio & Telefon AB, Svenska AB Philips and Siemens AB. The
first congress of this kind was held in Copenhagen in 1955 and they have thereafter
been held every third year.
ITC 7 gathered 328 delegates representing 30 countries. Altogether 130 papers
were presented. This congress was thus the largest of its kind hitherto, both in
number of delegates and in number of papers.
The subject-field for ITC is the Application of the Theory of Probability to
Telecommunication Research, Engineering and Administration.
The first international teletraffic congress was held in Copenhagen in 1955
at the initiative of Professor Ame Jensen, and to a large extent under his leadership.
The choice of Denmark as the place for the first congress was natural, as
modern teletraffic theory had been founded by A. K. Erlang.
ERICSSON REVIEW No. 4, 1973